LinuxLog: "Directory sread (sector 0x18) failed" Help!

[bubba]

I am getting the following errors in my log file on a couple of machines:

kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x18) failed
kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=12, limit=4

Anyone know what this is?

 

[Ace69]

Are you getting this in your dmesg? or what log file is it in?

 

[Nothinman]

I believe that's for the floppy device (02:00 is the major and minor device numbers), so either your floppy is bad or there is no disk in the drive.

 

[bubba]

It is in /var/log/messages

Ahh... Could be a mounted floppy that someone removed by hitting the button w/o unmounting it.

 

[Nothinman]

Ahh... Could be a mounted floppy that someone removed by hitting the button w/o unmounting it.

Yes, Linux cache's disks aggressively, even floppies so if you remove it without unmounting it first chances are your data wasn't written to the disk and when the kernel goes to flush the cache periodically you'll get errors like that.